A New Creek in the City
In the decade since Salt Lake City hosted the Olympic Games, the City has continued its transformation into a very urban place. The strict grid of numbered streets that radiate from Temple Square has been an ef ...
What is a Park?: The Kindergarten Project
As a Landscape Architect, I am very passionate about public space. I advocate for quality design through my professional project work and feel that there is also a need to educate the public on the both the mea ...
I was honored with an invitation from the Landscape Institute's Director Paul Lincoln to give the keynote address at the organization's annual conference. Here is a summary of what I presented. Architecture, i ...
The UK Landscape
I spent this past week in Liverpool attending the 2010 UK Landscape Conference, the annual event for Landscape Institute, where I had been invited to give a keynote address. In all honesty, I came to this even ...
I had a good talk with Jez Abbot from Horticulture Week about how the British export of its traditional landscape has been so successful that there is little interest in landscapes that are appropriate to its ...
In the January issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine, I was fortunate to have my opinion about the state of our profession included on the back page. You can read my essay on the ASLA blog The Dirt. I'm thr ...